Zoria April (Zorica Petkoska
Kalajdjieva) has been writing and being published since she was 7 years old.
She is a master public reading evader, she writes in short forms, currently
lacking the discipline for a novel. She is writing in 3 languages, reading in
10. She translates between some of those, sometimes professionally, sometimes
just to break beauty down to its smallest parts and recreate it. She has
published 2 poetry collections of her own, Stars
and Sparks of a Dream 2000 and Wordigami
2015, and has been published in various group collections and magazines in
several countries and languages, most recently in Japan and Hong Kong.
She holds an MA in English
literature and is just completed a research fellowship in Japanese culture and
concrete/visual poetry. She is currently a travel writer for several magazines
and websites.***
DISTILLED
EMOTION: NEUROMANCER'S TOKYO
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the idea behind the series –
The
punctuation in a text is its emotional markings, music notes, the scores for
breathing.
Loving a city means communicating not only
with its present, but also with its past and all its imagined futures. We enter
a dialogue with the art created for that city and all the stories overlap with
our daily reality like a big and complex origami. Living in Tokyo for me means
constantly meeting new aspects of the city while at the same time seeing the
aspects I've read about. The hardest aspect to find is the futuristic
cyber-punk Tokyo, but I do get glimpses of it occasionally. So here I am,
always searching for the Tokyo as described in Neuromancer by William Gibson.
Through the dialogue with this enormous megalopolis I have learned to look for
details, symbolical dots I could then connect so that the image reveals itself.
That is the only way to walk through and soak up the enormous urban space and
an endless mix of worlds and realities.
That is how I decided to go back in
Neuromancer and distill the emotion from it. All the questions and dilemmas,
all excitements, all silences, every breath inhaled, all of it is coded in the
punctuation of the text. In these posters of visual poetry, the punctuation is
our minimalist map for breathing and thinking. GPS coordinates through the
cyber-punk imagined city. The punctuation is a guiding star. The punctuation is
the conductor of the word-orchestra. In this series with only punctuation,
words are present with their absence.
1.(B)RAIN
When it rains in
Tokyo, I come closest to the cyberpunk fictional metropolis.
When it rains in
Tokyo, only the number of umbrellas grow. The city is not giving up, buzzing as
normal.
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2. INVISIBLE STORIES
all full stops from the novel
